MALU PEETERS (she/they)
Malu Peeters is a sound artist and composer based between Berlin and Amsterdam. Working across film, performance, XR and installation, she creates dense sonic worlds informed by queer, feminist, posthuman and postcolonial thought. Recurring themes include voice and agency, silenced histories, interspecies relations and more-than-human forms of listening, exploring ways to make audible what dominant systems render inaudible.
Her practice is characterised by intricate textural and spatial composition, and a close attention to the dramaturgical, material and psychoacoustic qualities of sound. Often operating at the level of image entanglement, her sounds unfold in meticulous relation with visual texture, space and movement. Through sonic worldbuilding, she gives presence and voice to forms of knowledge that exceed human representation: silenced histories, interspecies grief, reproductive futures, speculative forms of being. Whether composing for film, phygital art, XR installations or live performance, she translates critical research into sensorial experiences that are at once immersive, unsettling and tender.
Recent works include the audiovisual installation Excerpts From A Plantocracy (dir. Sabine Groenewegen, 2026); the feature film The Clearing (dir. Sabine Groenewegen, 2026), which premieres in International Competition at FID Marseille 2026, and for which she composed, supervised sound and performed original voice recordings in Láadan - a constructed feminist language she researched and translated for the film; the internationally touring Posthuman Wombs (co-created with Anan Fries, 2021–2022), which explores non-normative reproductive futures through VR, live performance and spatial sound; and the phygital work R.I.P. Resurrect In Peace (dir. Anan Fries, 2023–2024), for which she wrote a techno-spiritual multichannel requiem. Her debut EP L-0-U (2022) traces the spectrum of the (post)human voice from the fleshly and intimate to the strange and whimsical; a second release, a requiem for interspecies grief, is due in 2026.
Malu Peeters' works have been presented at IDFA, Eye Filmmuseum, Humboldt Forum, HAU Berlin, FIBA Buenos Aires, FID Marseille and DOK Leipzig.
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